It will use changes in the degree of red coloration detected by satellites to track its quarry: a tiny shrimp smaller than ...

UK scientists plan to monitor krill from space as species threatened by warming - The researchers hope to analyse where ...

They also fuel the entire food web in the Southern Ocean, which circles Earth’s southernmost continent. “Every single species in Antarctica feeds on krill, or something that feeds on krill ...

The project was launched at UNFCCC COP 26 in Baku, November 2020 and Dr Cait McCarry from Strathclyde has just returned from an expedition to Antarctica where she was sampling live krill. Krill are ...

But rising sea temperatures are causing krill nurseries lose their protective sea ice, causing populations to shrink and shift south. As a cornerstone to the Antarctic food web above the sea floor ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the ...

Antarctic krill are one of the most abundant animals on earth and are a major food source for many predators, including fish, penguins, seals and baleen whales. Antarctic krill also send carbon to ...